The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.